So another chapter dawns. Ahh, the twist and turns that may or may not happen, just you wait and see. I might be getting ready to upset some people and I might not. Just depends on my mood.
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Alright, on with the chapter!
Clarissa new that she needed help. She was in over her head and only knew of one person that she could turn to for this type of help. Clarissa picked up the phone and took a deep breath.
"School for gifted youngsters," a gruff male voice answered the phone.
"I need to talk to the professor please," Clarissa knew who it was but she didn't feel like dealing with him right now.
"Who wants to know?" the male voice snorted.
"Logan, you know who it is," Clarissa growled out.
"Clarissa, the one who put the head whammy on me. Why would I let the professor talk to you?" Logan spat.
"Because he is in the room with you right now holding out his hand for the phone," Clarissa always knew that Logan could be a jerk.
"Fine," Logan huffed.
"Clarissa, are you going to come here and work on your abilities?" Professor Xavier had always had a voice of calm that made her feel at ease.
"Sorry Professor X, not right now. I do need your help though. I don't know what to do about something that I have seen in someone's mind. She is a good person, but what I have seen makes me wonder if something can push her over the edge," Clarissa didn't know how to handle this and she didn't really want to handle it alone.
"I have seen what your mind has seen. I don't like it. I hope what we have both seen does not come to pass. What about the man that you work for, what does he think of all of this?"
"I haven't told him yet. She is his wife and I don't really know how to approach this with him. I mean, these are just dreams that I have seen. Plus, she didn't give me permission to look in her mind. I sort of did it for the fact that she is causing some minor earthquakes while dreaming. Not the big kind like when she is really upset, but the small aftershocks that barely anyone notices," Clarissa sighed.
"Clarissa, I think that she needs to come here and learn how to properly control her abilities, otherwise I fear that she will cause something to happen that may hurt or possibly kill someone," Professor Xavier sighed.
"She has learned how to control them when she is awake, but I don't think that she will trust you to help her. The last person ended up trying to kill her so that she could absorb her life force," Clarissa pinched the bridge of her nose.
"Who taught her to control?"
"Her mother, Jiaying, she also tried to kill her. Made Skye's trust issues get worse," Clarissa sat down on her bed.
"Skye? The S.H.I.E.L.D agent? Clarissa, I think that you need to know something. S.H.I.E.L.D is looking for her to the point that they even contacted me," Xavier was worried as to what Clarissa had gotten herself into.
"That's big. I thought that Fury had personally given you his word that he would not put any of your people on the Index?"
"Yes, and he has held his end of the promise, but I cannot protect her if Fury is looking for her. Clarissa, that is not a wise idea," Xavier sighed.
"What? I didn't say anything!"
"No, but you thought of something. I don't think that it is a good idea to find the new Afterlife. Who knows who is running it and how Skye will react. You know how Jiaying tainted the minds of all that lived in Afterlife. According to Director Coulson, she was even able to taint Skye's. Clarissa, I think that you need to get her back to S.H.I.E.L.D and fast. She needs to be helped right now and you are not the one that can handle this. You barely have control over your powers at this time. We don't even know the full extent to your powers right now. Who knows what may happen to you while trying to help her. Clarissa, please follow my advice and take her back to S.H.I.E.L.D," Xavier sounded tired.
"I will have to talk to the boss man, and I will have to talk to Skye. It is ultimately her decision and I can't make it for her. Thanks for your help professor," Clarissa hung up the phone before the professor could reply.
Coulson stared at the images from the security camera of Skye. She was pregnant and married to Ward. How could this have happened to her? He knew how, Ward had warped her mind like he had done to Kara's. How could Coulson have let this happen to Skye? How could he have prevented this? That's right; he didn't listen to his heart and let the team say what they felt about Skye. He had kept secrets from her and made her feel that she was no longer part of the team. Coulson heard a ping come from his computer and looked down to see an e-mail from someone that he hadn't talk to in years and really never had any dealings with.
"What do you want?" Coulson asked out loud as he opened Professor Xavier's e-mail.
Coulson's heart sank as he read Xavier's words about how Skye may become lost from her humanity if she didn't get some help. He admitted that he knew she was on the run from S.H.I.E.L.D, but that she needed help but not to fear being turned over to S.H.I.E.L.D if she didn't want to be with them right now. He offered to help her and try to convince her that she needed to return to S.H.I.E.L.D and talk with them.
Coulson leaned back and closed his eyes. At least it was a ray of hope. He didn't like the fact that Xavier and his "students" were exempt from the Index per Fury himself, but if he was willing to help Skye and not ask too many questions, then who was Coulson to turn that down. Maybe Xavier was one of the few that could possibly help Skye and maybe just maybe help her find her way back to the team. He had to admit that he missed having her around with her snarky comments.
"Hey, do you have a minute?" Hunter knocked on the door jamb of Coulson's office.
"I have a lot of them right now, what's up?" Coulson sat up and straightened his tie and then moved to fixing his desk.
"I was wondering if you would let me go with Lincoln to check something out," Hunter crossed his arms.
"Well, that's sort of cryptic; care to elaborate just a little so that I know where you two are going?" Coulson shot Hunter a look.
"Lincoln thinks that he found the spot where the new Afterlife is. He wants to go but no have the GPS beckon on. He wants to make sure that these people aren't' found like last time. I am in agreement with him. I think that these people just really want to stay off the grid and not have to deal with the outside world. I mean, look at how we all handled Skye," Hunter rubbed the back of his neck and barely made eye contact with Coulson.
"I don't know if that turning off the GPS is such a good idea. What if something happens to you two? How would we get to you with back up if we don't know where you are?" Coulson continued straightening his desk.
"I have sparky with me. Plus, I am pretty handy when it comes to a fight. I know that you think that we need to Index all the people there, but right now, I think that finding this may lead us to Skye," Hunter didn't know if that was true but Lincoln had told Hunter to mention it when asking to use a quinjet.
"Fine, but you need to be back as soon as possible. If anything happens, I want you to immediately turn on the GPS as a signal that you are in trouble," Coulson finally stopped cleaning his desk.
"We will let you know what we find," Hunter nodded as he left the office.
Hunter walked down the hallway to Lincoln's room and knocked on the door.
"Well?" Lincoln waved his hand for Hunter to come in.
"Dad's letting us borrow the car. We just need to make sure that we don't scratch it. And before you ask, yes, we get to turn off the GPS tracker," Hunter sat down on Lincoln's bed.
"I was planning on turning off the tracker either way. I just thought that it would go over better if we asked about it. Get your gear, we need to go before Coulson changes his mind," Lincoln finished shoving things into his backpack.
"Are you sure that Skye is there?"
"No, but if what Jacob tells me is true, then she will be. Jacob has already talked to Clarissa but I doubt that Clarissa is going to help us," Lincoln walked out of his door.
"Clarissa was the hot blonde from the Hydra base that we blew up, right?"
"Yes, but that is not her true form. She is tricky like that and only a few of us know what she really looks like. I only know for the fact that I worked with both her and Jacob while they were in Afterlife. I should have known that she would follow Ward," Lincoln shook his head.
Hunter grabbed his pack from his room as they walked down the hallway. He followed Lincoln up the ramp of the quinjet and closed it after they were safely on board. He got them airborne and then turned off the GPS tracker.
"Alright, where to?" Hunter was getting the navigation ready for the coordinates.
"Same place as before," Lincoln kicked up his heals.
"Wait, what?" Hunter looked at Lincoln out of the corner of his eye.
"The best way to ensure that the enemy doesn't know where you went, is to go right back to where you are. I don't think that S.H.I.E.L.D would think to look there for Afterlife," Lincoln shrugged.
"Wow, that is stupid," Hunter typed in the old coordinates.
"Not as stupid as what I am about to tell you," Lincoln prepared himself for what was about to come.
"Yeah, and what's that?"
"Bobbi and I are sleeping together and we didn't know how to tell you that she and I are now a thing," Lincoln held onto the seat as tight as he could.
Well gang what do you think of that? Dun, dun, dun or dud dud dud? Let me know what you think please! I love feedback and I love to know what you guys think. PM me if you have any suggestions or the thoughts of how Hunter is going to handle everything.
